Synopsis : Ferrando entertains a group of soldiers with the story of the Count of Luna's brother, Garcia, who was apparently killed as an infant by the daughter of an old gypsy woman who was burned for being a witch by the Count di Luna's father.

Synopsis : Leonora reveals to her servant Ines that she heard someone serenading her in the garden. However, when she goes out to see who the troubadour is, she finds that it is, in fact, a knight in black armor who she had once crowned as the champion of a tournament. She has quickly fallen in love with him.

Synopsis : Leonora has fallen in love with a knight that serenades her in the gardens at night. Ines warns her that this troubadour will bring trouble to them all and that Leonora should not continue seeing him. Leonora responds that she will not stop meeting him, for she would give her life for him.

Synopsis : Azucena describes her mother's death to Manrico and the crowd of gypsies. Her mother was burned on the stake for being a witch while the ones who convicted her falsely laughed and enjoyed themselves.

Synopsis : Azucena tells Manrico the complete sequence of events that occurred at her mother's execution. She recounts that, as her mother was being burned at the stake, she cried out to Azucena to avenge her. Seeking this revenge, Azucena took the son of the Count of Luna at that time, planning on throwing it in the same fire that her mother died in. In her madness, though, Azucena threw her own baby into the fire instead and kept the Count's son to herself. This would make Manrico the brother of the current Count of Luna, but Azucena insists that Manrico is her son since she raised him and brought his health back when he was wounded.

Synopsis : Leonora has decided to enter a convent after hearing that her love Manrico has died in battle. The Count of Luna also loves her, though, and decides that if he steals her away from the convent, then she will love him. In this aria, he confesses his love of Leonora to the world.

Role : Manrico, an officer in Prince Urgel's army and the supposed son of the gypsy woman Azucena

Voice Part : tenor Fach : spinto

Setting : A room adjoining the chapel at Castellor, 1409.

Range : F3 to G#/Ab4. Tessitura : G#/Ab3 to G#/Ab4

Synopsis : Although the castle of Castellor is under siege, Manrico and Leonora are about to be married. Manrico tells his love that, even if the fortress is destroyed and he is killed, he will die speaking her name.

Role : Manrico, an officer in Prince Urgel's army and the supposed son of the gypsy woman Azucena

Voice Part : tenor Fach : spinto

Setting : A room adjoining the chapel at Castellor, 1409.

Range : E3 to G4. Tessitura : G3 to G4

Synopsis : Manrico has discovered that his mother Azucena has been captured by the Count of Luna and is about to be burned at the stake. Furious, Manrico calls together his soldiers and sings valiantly of how they will save Azucena from death.

Synopsis : Manrico has been captured in an attempt to save his mother from being executed and is now being held in prison by the Count of Luna. Leonora has come to the prison in disguise in order to see him. She hopes that he will be sustained by her love for him.

Synopsis : Manrico has been captured in an attempt to save his mother from being executed and is now being held in prison by the Count of Luna. Leonora has come to the prison in disguise in order to see him. After hearing a choir of monks chant a prayer for the prisoners, Leonora sings of her great concern for her love.